26/01/2023 | 11:39:45 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate our rapporteur, as has been said, on the excellence of his report and all the work done by the Committee. Human rights violations are a daily occurrence in Ukraine. They are committed by regular members of the Russian armed forces, but also by private militias, in particular the Wagner militia, whose sinister exploits are talked about in the country but also elsewhere. The Russian Federation has been guilty... 25/01/2023 | 18:25:31 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, In my country, France, a woman dies every three days at the hands of her partner or former partner and domestic violence is on the rise. I am sure it is the same in most of the countries we represent in this Assembly. And these murders are only the tip of the iceberg. Violence against women takes many forms, from intimate partner violence to female genital mutilation to the growing phenomenon of cyber violence. Whatever form it takes, wherever it... 25/01/2023 | 11:28:18 Thank you, Madam Chair. The general discussion is closed. The Social, Health and Sustainable Development Committee has presented a draft resolution to which three amendments and two sub-amendments have been tabled, and a draft recommendation to which three amendments and two sub-amendments have been tabled. The amendments will be called in the order in which they apply to the text, as published in the collection of amendments. Dear colleagues, I remind you that the time limit for each... 25/01/2023 | 10:13:10 I'm sorry I'm late, ladies and gentlemen. The sitting is open. The Assembly will hold an urgent debate on legal issues and human rights violations related to the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine this morning. The deadline for amendments was initially set for today at 10:30 a.m. I ask for the agreement of the Assembly to extend this deadline to 12:00 today. Are there any objections? If not, then that stands approved. The next item of business is the presentation of and... 24/01/2023 | 17:30:57 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Secretary General, Dear colleagues, The fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe is scheduled to take place in Reykjavik on 16 and 17 May. This summit is necessary. Indeed, when the Council of Europe was founded in 1949, the protection of human rights and the rejection of totalitarian regimes were placed at the center of our common identity, while Europeans were still bruised after the Second World War. The Council of Europe was... 14/10/2022 | 11:29:11 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, When we hear "vaccine discrimination", those of us of a scientific or Cartesian bent, understand inequality of access or limited access to vaccines against Covid-19, but also against a certain number of transmissible diseases that have not all been beaten- far from it. That being said, the debate - particularly, I must say, in Europe, that is to say in countries that generally had access to Covid vaccines, have been able to better protect their... 13/10/2022 | 17:40:52 Ladies and gentlemen, The sitting is resumed. The next item of business this morning is the presentation of and debate on the report by Ms Edite ESTRELA, on behalf of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, entitled: "Levelling the playing field - ending discrimination against women in sport" (Doc. 15611). We will have to conclude the debate, including the vote, at 6:40 p.m. We will therefore have to interrupt the list of speakers at about 6:30 p.m. in order to allow time for the... 13/10/2022 | 17:05:52 Thank you, Mister President. It is as a French neighbour and even as a Norman that I speak on this subject of human rights on the island of Ireland. Seen from up close, this subject is extremely difficult, because we must respect both the choices and the interests of the British and Irish people, but also those of the neighbouring European countries for whom this choice is not neutral. First, there is one element on which everyone agrees: preserving the Good Friday Agreement that ended the... 12/10/2022 | 18:24:40 Thank you, dear colleagues. The next item is the joint debate. We will first hear the presentation by Mrs Stephanie KRISPER of the report of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons entitled "Safe third countries for asylum seekers" (Doc. 15592). Then Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ will present the report of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons on "Returns by sea and land: illegal migration management measures" (Doc. 15604). We will finish the debate on these... 27/01/2022 | 17:16:42 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank all the members who have taken the floor in this important debate. Before proceeding to the vote, allow me to briefly present the draft resolution and recommendation. For the draft resolution, which is addressed to the governments and parliaments of our member states, I basically propose: 1- To join the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Observatory of History Teaching in Europe in order to take full advantage of this knowledge...